Forbes columnist Steven Salzberg and author-investigator Joe Nickell will each be awarded the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, to be presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry at the CFI Summit in October.

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Stephen T. Asma

Stephen Asma is Distinguished Scholar of Humanities at Columbia College in Chicago. He is the author of several books including Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Oxford 2003) and The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha (HarperCollins 2006). He is currently burning in hell. Web site: stephenasma.com.

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